But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.

Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled next to a small set of bones buried beside a frozen river, which will emerge with the spring thaw, a skeleton ship rising out of the water”.

For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again.

Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.